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At the farmers’ market, shoppers buy directly from the farms which grew their food. There are no intermediary steps to complicate things, and less intermediary actors to take a piece of the profit. According to the Economic Research Service, U.S. farmers, on average, pocket only 14.8 cents per...
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From San Diego to just south of San Francisco, strawberry festivals begin to explode throughout the state in the summer months. Mounds of strawberries appear at your local farmers' market. And strawberry desserts, salads, and drinks are added to restaurant menus. Drive south along Pacific Coast...
For hundreds of years, people around the world have gathered in public spaces to buy produce from their farmer neighbors. Markets were often held in city centers, and some cities like Lancaster, Pennsylvania also had “curb markets,” where farmers sold their bounty out of their wagons on the curbs...
The pepper has been around for centuries, but many myths have grown up around their color and shape. Myth: The number of lobes on a pepper determines whether it is female or male - 3 lobed peppers are male, 4-lobed peppers are male. Truth: The number of lobes does not determine the sex of a pepper...
I am not a raw foodie, nor have I attempted a raw foods diet. I once ate a raw ‘pizza’; it wasn’t for me. However, I do advocate that as a smart cook and shopper, you should know what you are getting out of your grocery selections. Raw food can help with that. Of course we all try raw stone fruit...